yep, everyone from batesville shops at George's Liquor in newport. Source : me having lived in batesville.... and also newport. both towns (and the entire state) are complete shitholes.
Let's talk shit about Batesville then.
When I moved there in 1995, Mtv was banned from their cable network.
I ran a Book/Video/Music store there (Crossroads, which was bought out by Boarders, which went out of business) and they forbid me from ordering Marylin Manson's Antichrist Superstar, a MASSIVE hit. I had to tell *dozens* of people a day that we refused to carry it. They just went down the street to WalMart and bought it. Speaking of WalMart, the Batesville super store discounted their music more than other WalMarts with the express purpose of putting Blue Meanie out of business (the one and only local mom & pop music store that I'm sure has been gone for decades now).
There was a judge in town that would drop your tickets if you bought him a case of beer or if women showed him their tits. It was completely an open secret.
Everyone I ever met there drank and drove. All the time. The all had open containers as they drove. It freaked me the fuck out. I told them that if you were in Michigan and cops caught you, your ass was going to jail and your car would be impounded. In Batesville, the local cops just laughed it off.
I drove back and forth to Michigan and had to take Highway 55 through MO that had a section of "Adopt a Highway" by the fucking Klu Klux Klan.
Man, I could go on and on. I was only there 4.5 years but fuck that entire state.
